Magnus Nedregotten

Magnus Nedregotten
birthday	24th October 1990 (age 29)
place of birth	Stavanger, Norway
Career
nation	Norway
society	Oppdal Curling Club
Playing position	Second
Playing hand	right
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 0 × 1 × MDWM medals 0 × 0 × 1 × MEM medals 0 × 1 × 0 × JWM medals 0 × 0 × 1 × University medals 1 × 0 × 1 ×
winter Olympics bronze 2018 Pyeongchang Mixed doubles Curling Mixed Doubles World Championship bronze 2015 Sochi  Mixed European Curling Championships silver 2014 Tårnby Junior World Curling Championship bronze 2011 Perth  Winter Universiade gold 2015 Granada bronze 2017 Alamty
last change: February 23, 2018

Magnus Nedregotten (born October 24, 1990 in Stavanger ) is a Norwegian curler . He is currently playing second in Steffen Walstad's team and in mixed doubles with Kristin Skaslien .

Career

Nedregotten began his international career at the European Youth Olympic Winter Festival 2009 as the lead in Sander Rølvåg's team and won the bronze medal there. He also came third with the Norwegian junior team at the 2011 Junior World Championships . In his second participation in the mixed European championship , he won the silver medal in 2014. At the Winter Universiade 2015 he won the gold medal as Skip with the team from the University of Oslo under Steffen Walstad. The title at the Winter Universiade 2017 was not defended ; Nedregotten won the bronze medal with the Norwegian team.

Since 2013 he has participated in all mixed doubles world championships together with Kristin Skaslien ; the greatest success so far was winning the bronze medal at the 2015 World Cup .

In 2017 he won the Norwegian championship with the Walstad team, defeating the multiple national champion, two-time European champion and 2014 world champion, Thomas Ulsrud . With the win he qualified for the 2017 World Cup , in which the Norwegians came eighth.

Nedregotten played together with Kristin Skaslien for Norway in the first mixed doubles competition at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games . The two were tied for fourth place after the Round Robin and had to play a tie-breaker against China for a place in the semi-finals. The Norwegians won the game against Ba Dexin and Wang Rui 9-7 . In the semifinals they lost to Canada ( Kaitlyn Lawes and John Morris ) 4-8 and in the game for third place they had to admit defeat to Russians Anastassija Brysgalowa and Alexander Kruschelnizki 4-8, so they came fourth in the final standings. After Kruschelnizki was disqualified for doping, Nedregotten and Skaslien were subsequently awarded the bronze medal on February 24, 2018.

At the 2018 World Cup , he moved into the playoffs with the team led by Steffen Walstad, but lost the qualifying game against South Korea (Skip: Kim Chang-min ) and came in fifth.

Private life

Nedregotten studied sports management at the Norwegian Sports School .

Web links

• Magnus Nedregotten on Worldcurling.org (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Team Steffen Walstad. In: thegrandslamofcurling.com. The Grand Slam of Curling, accessed January 23, 2018 . 
2. ↑ NORWEGIAN NEWBIE MAKES DREAM DEBUT. In: curling.ca. April 2, 2017, accessed January 23, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Olympic Winter Games 2018 - Teams. In: worldcurling.org. World Curling Federation, accessed January 20, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Matthias Friebe: Norwegian curlers should later get bronze. In: deutschlandfunk.de. February 22, 2018, accessed February 22, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Rachel Axon: Norwegians to get curling bronze before Games are over after Russian doping sanction. In: usatoday.com. February 23, 2018, accessed February 24, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Athlete Profiles - Magnus Nedregotten. In: olympic.org. Retrieved February 23, 2018 .